A quiet seaside resort with narrow winding streets.
It was Dickens' favourite resort and there is a Dickens Festival in June, please see the website for dates.
Website: www.tourism.thanet.gov.uk
A quiet seaside resort with narrow winding streets.
It was Dickens' favourite resort and there is a Dickens Festival in June, please see the website for dates.
Website: www.tourism.thanet.gov.uk
Tourist Information: 2 Victoria Parade. Tel. 0870 264 6111.
Crampton Tower Museum - The Broadway
A museum dedicated to Thomas Crampton (1816-1888), a Victorian civil engineer from Broadstairs.
Models, drawings, patents and local railwayana. Exhibits relating to local buses and trams.
Working model railway layouts. Tel. 01843 871133.
Open*: Apr-Oct, Daily 1400-1700.
Website: www.cramptontower.co.uk
Dickens House Museum - 2 Victoria Parade
Dickens' letters and personal belongings. Prints, costumes and Victoriana. The house has links with
Dickens' novel David Copperfield. Tel. 01843 861232.
Open*: Easter-Oct, Daily 1400-1700.
Website: www.dickenshouse.co.uk
National Rail Enquiries
tel. 0845 748 4950.